I was updating my GSAK database for "all of Minnesota" and noticed that I have 9256 total caches in there (includes active and inactive/archived). The way I'm looking at it, it looks like there are 6551 active caches right now (including events).

I was wondering if we are getting close to the milestone of 10,000 actual caches hidden in Minnesota. This would be physical container type caches or virtual caches (and earth caches). I believe events are in a different category.

Does anybody have a database that includes ALL Minnesota caches ever hidden and approved for publication by Groundspeak? Since I don't remember when I started collecting this info for GSAK, I have no idea how many caches had already been archived (hundreds I'm sure)._________________-Paklid

I was updating my GSAK database for "all of Minnesota" and noticed that I have 9256 total caches in there (includes active and inactive/archived). The way I'm looking at it, it looks like there are 6551 active caches right now (including events).

I show 9602 total caches in my database, with 6514 active caches.

I'm not surprised that my total caches is different than yours as my data may be older than yours (I'm not sure how far back mine goes). I am surprised by how big the difference in active caches is though.

My filter is set so that a cache is considered 'active' if I last updated the information in GSAK within the last 15 days. I pull every cache, including temp disabled ones, at least once per week (newer caches get pulled twice per week)._________________Hmm...

I'm sure someone has an idea of the rate of new caches and would thus be able to predict when we'll make 10k. That seems like it may be the basis for a new thread in itself (the predictions/guesses). Maybe someone will start it...._________________Hmm...

I asked Groundspeak if they would tell me how many caches (total) have ever been published for Minnesota.

here's the reply:

Quote:

While I can not tell you which cache it was there are already more than 10,000 caches published in your state.

Thank you,
Michael
Groundspeak - The Language of Location

It would have been nice since he had the info in front of him if he had just spit out how many had been published (we could have backed into which one was #10,000), but it's better than just being ignored. So there have already been 10,000+ caches published here since the beginning of time._________________-Paklid

I asked Groundspeak if they would tell me how many caches (total) have ever been published for Minnesota.

here's the reply:

Quote:

While I can not tell you which cache it was there are already more than 10,000 caches published in your state.

Thank you,
Michael
Groundspeak - The Language of Location

It would have been nice since he had the info in front of him if he had just spit out how many had been published (we could have backed into which one was #10,000), but it's better than just being ignored. So there have already been 10,000+ caches published here since the beginning of time.

Is there a way to get all the caches in MN in a gpx or similar file? Do you think Groundspeak will start publishing all of a state. Personally, I'd prefer to have them all, then use GSAK to filter them._________________Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

Is there a way to get all the caches in MN in a gpx or similar file? Do you think Groundspeak will start publishing all of a state. Personally, I'd prefer to have them all, then use GSAK to filter them.

You can only get the active and disabled ones through multiple PQs. You can't get the archived ones at all.

There are a number of us that pull the entire state of MN through PQs. There's a thread here somewhere that talks about how to set it up (I think in the Tech Talk area).

Groundspeak is pretty tight with their data - I doubt they'll be offering entire states any time soon._________________Hmm...

You can only get the active and disabled ones through multiple PQs. You can't get the archived ones at all.

There are a number of us that pull the entire state of MN through PQs. There's a thread here somewhere that talks about how to set it up (I think in the Tech Talk area).

Groundspeak is pretty tight with their data - I doubt they'll be offering entire states any time soon.

Wouldn't it be more efficient and consume less resources for them to publish a list for the entire state once a week instead of having multiple people doing multiple PQs that do the same thing? The metro is so cache dense, I can't do a radus over 8 miles before I exceed the 500 max, so I've lready resorted to multiple PQs. Oh well.

Thanks Pear Head for the info._________________Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

Makes me think of back in the day when a 100 cache radius from Lakeville would get me all the way up past Anoka. Of course, that was back in the day when we had to walk 6 miles, uphill both ways, barefoot in the snow, and it was 110 degrees out, just to find a cache, but we were thankful. And all we had to eat were slinkies on the way._________________There comes a time in every young boy's life when he gets an irresistible urge to seek buried treasure.--Mark Twain

Makes me think of back in the day when a 100 cache radius from Lakeville would get me all the way up past Anoka. Of course, that was back in the day when we had to walk 6 miles, uphill both ways, barefoot in the snow, and it was 110 degrees out, just to find a cache, but we were thankful. And all we had to eat were slinkies on the way.

Yeah, but just try telling that to these newbies... and they won't beleive you. _________________...formerly 'dachebo'.

My GSAK database has 10070 current plus archived caches published in Minnesota. It does NOT include Event caches other than the ones I've attended. My Archived list has 3214 caches.

I spent some time last summer and fall using the geocaching.com mapping feature that used to include archived caches along with the active ones. The "new" map introduced in the fall (before I finished going through the entire state) doesn't show Archived caches anymore so my list is probably not complete, especially around the Metro area.